The House of the Scorpion

• Author : Nancy Farmer
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 07 June 2022

In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.

• Author : Nancy Farmer
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 11 May 2010

Discover this internationally bestselling, National Book Award–winning young adult classic about what it means to be human with an updated, reimagined cover! Matt Alacrán wasn’t born. He was harvested. His DNA came from El Patrón, the drug-lord ruler of the country of Opium. Most people hate and fear clones like Matt—except for El Patrón. El Patrón loves Matt as he loves himself, because Matt is himself. As Matt struggles to understand his existence,

• Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
• Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
• Release : 29 June 2016

A Study Guide for Nancy Farmer's "The House of the Scorpion," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

• Author : Nancy Farmer
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 07 June 2022

As the teenage ruler of his own country, Matt must cope with clones and cartels in this riveting sequel to the modern classic "House of the Scorpion, " winner of the National Book Award, a Newbery Honor, and a Printz Honor.

• Author : Nancy Farmer
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 26 September 2013

Matt has always been nothing but a clone - an exact replica, grown from a strip of old El Patron's skin. Now, age fourteen, Matt suddenly finds himself thrust into the position of ruling over his own country, Opium, on the one-time border between the US and Mexico, stretching from the ruins of San Diego to the ruins of Matamoros. But while Opium thrives, the rest of the world has been devastated by ecological disaster… and hidden somewhere in Opium

• Author : Novel Units,Pat Watson
• Publisher : Novel Units, Incorporated
• Release : 15 July 2019

Suggests activities to be used in the classroom to accompany the reading of The house of the scorpion by Nancy Farmer.

• Author : Nancy Farmer
• Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Release : 06 September 2022

Discover the National Book Award, Newbery Honor, and Printz Honor–winning modern classic and its riveting sequel—together in a collectible paperback boxed set for the first time! Matt Alacrán was not born. He was harvested. His DNA came from El Patrón, who is the drug-lord ruler of the country of Opium. Most people hate and fear clones like Matt—except for El Patrón. El Patrón loves Matt as he loves himself, because Matt is himself.

• Author : Nancy Farmer
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 January 2002

• Author : Judy Gelman,Vicki Levy Krupp
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release : 10 May 2007

The first complete guide-for use by adults and children-to creating fun and educational book clubs for kids. As authors of The Book Club Cookbook, the classic guide to integrating great food and food-related discussion into book club gatherings, Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp hear a common refrain from parents, librarians, teachers, community leaders and kids themselves: "How about writing a book for kids' book clubs?" Indeed, in recent years youth organizations, parents, libraries, schools, and our local, state, and

• Author : D. J. Conway
• Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
• Release : 03 June 1995

This book shows how to access the spiritual powers of familiars--real or imagined animals--for personal enrichment. Whether one collects glass animals, dreams about snakes, or "talks" with an animal already, ANIMAL MAGICK shows how to further develop this connection for startling magickal results.

• Author : Booksource, The
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 August 2009

• Author : Juergen Beck
• Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
• Release : 03 June 2023

"Zodiac Unleashed" presents you the ultimate textbook for your sign. Did you ever think about which secrets stand behind your sign? What your sign means? How it "happens" in the sky and the mystery of the symbols? Are there "amplifiers" to boost your luck and your health? Well, there are! And this small, valuable and easily understandable book will tell you all about these secrets.

• Author : Hilde Vandermeeren
• Publisher : Pushkin Press
• Release : 01 October 2021

An exhilarating addition to the Walter Presents Library: a furiously paced psychological thriller One kills for a living. The other would kill to survive. Soon, their paths will cross... When Gaelle wakes up, the nightmare begins. She is lying injured in a psychiatric hospital in Berlin, with no memory of the tense holiday weekend she has just spent with her family. Her son is in a coma in a different hospital - and the police think she tried to kill

• Author : James Oakes
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• Release : 19 May 2014

Explores the Civil War and the anti-slavery movement, specifically highlighting the plan to help abolish slavery by surrounding the slave states with territories of freedom and discusses the possibility of what could've been a more peaceful alternative to the war. 17,000 first printing.

• Author : Ninos Piro
• Publisher : iUniverse
• Release : 03 June 2023

Marcus Pirelli was a man who found out that his work, as a bounty hunter didn't make a difference. Now as The Scorpion, he devotes his life to fighting crime and bringing evildoers to justice. Meanwhile, there is a new serial killer in Ocean City who is targeting city officials, a street war involving three rival mobs that is tearing the city apart, and there are suspicions of corruption in the police department. Can one man really change all that?